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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I think I get it now. When you see job postings that require 20 years experience for a technology that was released a couple of years ago, they're talking internet years, right? Like a 7:1 or maybe 10:1 ratio? That's probably it. Let's see... I have at least 210 years work experience then. Cool, cool.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
(Just exposing my juvenile delinquent past for all to see this morning.)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
TFW when things are really quiet and you're intently focusing on a task and your brain starts blasting "Brass Monkey" at you.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Fifteen years ago, I joined a team of godless evolutionists on an invasion of the Creation "Museum". I've still got the t-shirt.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/12/merry-darwin-day/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
This should be widely read, especially by the #cybersecurity community.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I realize now…Joel Osteen is Keyser Söze.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/12/joel-osteen-devastated/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
As an aside, there's a lot of IANAL commenting and pondering about enforceable software licenses. But from what I've seen of this world, licenses are only enforceable to the extent you have power, money, or influence.
If you don't have those things, and it suits your purposes, I say choose a license that is meaningful and aligns with your values. The worst that may happen is the people you don't want using your software won't. And maybe some like minded people will find you and help out.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Regarding LB[1]: That post made me think about software licenses from a "freedom of association" and "paradox of tolerance" framing. Not that software licenses alone can solve these issues, but a license can be a declaration of intent and have some impact, especially when combined with other activity.
These licenses are important enough for Google et al. to pay employees to badger new open source projects to change their licenses to permissive licenses. 🤔
[1] https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/111917942164870700
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:
New blogpost: An introduction to 'ethical licensing'
Technology ... has always been political. I’ve very little time for discussions which try to separate “tech” and “politics”.
The same is true with licensing models.
Over the last couple of years, I’ve seen more people talking about “ethical licensing”. And, while I’ve yet to see an “ethical licence” come up in the course of my work, I thought it might be an interesting topic for a blog post.
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StefanThinks@beige.party wrote:
If they ever make a Jack Dorsey biopic, they should cast Peter Dinklage.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
God's team won, I guess.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
adactio ("Jeremy Keith") wrote:
When people say “RSS is dead” what they really mean is “we couldn’t figure out a way to monetise RSS.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
When I was in my early 20’s, I hustled my ass off. I worked 2 jobs and a side hustle. I drank 8 cups of coffee a day and popped No Doz pills to work at night.
And then I burned the fuck out. And crashed hard.
And it wasn’t worth it.There’s a lot of folks who will tell you: “grind to the point of exhaustion. Chase wealth and rest later. Make work your only religion.”
That advice is poison. It will leave you broken and hurt and tired and alone.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ian@hachyderm.io ("Ian Coldwater 📦💥") wrote:
I'D JUST LIKE TO INTERJECT FOR A MOMENT. WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO AS LINUX IS IN FACT GNU/LINUX, OR AS I'VE RECENTLY TAKEN TO CALLING IT, GNU + LINUX. LINUX IS NOT AN OPERATING SYSTEM UNTO ITSELF, BUT RATHER ANOTHER FREE COMPONENT OF A FULLY FUNCTIONING GNU SYSTEM
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
BootedUp@universeodon.com ("Jimbo93") wrote:
General (Ret.) Wesley K. Clark, Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander on Donald Trump’s remarks
“On 9/11, when America was under attack, NATO nations all mobilized to come to our defense and fought alongside us to crush al Qaeda. They didn’t ask us for money. They didn’t put strings on it. That is the kind of iron-clad commitment that has kept Western democracies — including our own — alive for 75 years.
“For Donald Trump to publicly signal to Vladimir Putin that he can take as much of Europe as he wants, and we will sit by and cheer him on, isn’t just breaking the promise the United States has made, and it isn’t just threatening Europe. It is encouraging World War III, which will hit our shores and cost American lives.
“It is the kind of statement that can only come from a deranged and twisted mind. I do not say this lightly: The lives of every American, both in uniform and civilian, are at severe risk if Donald Trump wins this election.”
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
KANSAS CITY
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
davidaugust@mastodon.online ("David August") wrote:
Honestly, I’d watch this movie.
#cat #SchrodingersCat #quantum #QuantumTunneling #Schrodinger #physics #meme #funny
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
kyleve@mastodon.online ("Kyle 🏳️🌈") wrote:
Where are the crypto commercials
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Turn off those Super Bowl commercials! And skip church!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/11/christ-capitalism-and-crime-go-hand-in-hand/
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nicmagnier@idlethumbs.social ("Nic Magnier") wrote:
Collecting inspiring images of trucks being stuck under a bridge
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Oh, they have the super bowl on TVs now.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
(I'm nearly done with the sketchbook I've been using for doodles, and I was flipping through it. I forgot that before I started using it for regular doodling practice that I had used it to sketch out something used for the kiddo's party.
I was kind of uncomfortable with the whole theme of the game, but whatever. I can't control what other people find reasonable, and it's difficult to always be the party pooper.)
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
The kiddo wanted a princess themed party for their 4th birthday, and their mom had this idea of pin the tail on the donkey, but instead of a donkey, there would be a frog, and instead of a tail, there would be kissy lips. The sketch is pretty close to what I created, only the final thing was large and on a poster board and colored. We ended up giving it away on a buy nothing group, so it had a life beyond the kiddo's party.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Idk why people act like it's hard to pick between a guy with an age problem, and guy with the same age problem but also like 20 way bigger problems.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
there's been almost twenty years of work on optimizing javascript engines with JIT and complex heuristic-based GC and a wealth of feature-rich profiling and analysis tools and validation and testing frameworks for deployment and integration and syntax improvements and functional and higher-order primitives and serverside transpiled code. and it's all enabled some amazing new stuff, for example github now takes 10 seconds to display a plain text file, and you cant search properly anymore
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
[Makes a giant poster board sign that says "You can't stop Mahomes when m'home's in his city"]
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I don't want to jinx it or anything, but teams from the city I happen to live in are undefeated in Super Bowls.*
*I moved to Kansas City partway through last season.
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New_Narrative@mastodon.world ("Mike Walker") wrote:
Russia using Musk's Starlink, Ukraine army intelligence says https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-use-elon-musk-starlink-ukraine-army-intelligence-say/
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janrosenow@mastodon.energy ("Jan Rosenow") wrote:
Two things we keep getting consistently wrong:
1⃣ Vastly overestimating future coal demand
2⃣ Massively underestimating future generation of solar PV
Love these graphics from @rethink_x
Mastodon FeedYears ago, I debated with 2 American coworkers about the fact that they pay twice as much as Canadians for drugs.
Both were smart engineers, leaning towards the progressive side of American politics, and both told me it was because they were bearing the brunt of R&D for the rest of the world.
Really, the Americans were just being gyped to pay execs and shareholders. Full stop.
![Schrödinger's Cat has escaped from the box using Quantum Tunneling and is now looking for Schrödinger. [photo of a very cross looking small white cat]](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/111/915/596/076/597/068/original/df82c05fa43b13e4.jpeg){kind=link}
